Greeting card



Dec. 22 1925.

E. D. CHASE- GREETING CARD Filed'June 3,

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V UNITED STA ERNEST :o. CHASE, or WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

T GREETING CARD.

Application filed June 3, 1925 Serial No. 34,541.

greeting card in which the messages areprinted on message bearing slips that are inserted through slits formed in the card so that normally the message is concealed but may be exposed by withdrawing the slip from the slit. The message bearing slips are so constructed that they can neither be accidentally withdrawn entirely from the card and thus lost, or pushed so far into the slit that they cannot be readily withdrawn. In order to give an understanding of the invention I have illustrated in the drawings a selected embodiment thereof which will now be described after which the novel features will be pointed out in the appended claims.v

Fig. 1 is a'view of a greeting card embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 1s a rear side View with a portion broken out;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 8-3, Fig. 2;

Fig. i is a view illustrating the manner in which the strip bearing the greeting is inserted into or withdrawn from the slit;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view of a portion of one of the strips and the adjacent portion of the card;

Fig. 6 is a back sideview of one of the greeting bearing strips removed. 7

The greeting card is indicated generally at 1 and it may have any desirable ornamentation or pictorial representation on its face.

The particular card herein illustrated is one which might be used to send greetings to a person departing on a voyage and the pictorial representation on its face illustrates a wharf with pieces of baggage thereon. It will be understood, of course, that the character of the pictorial representation will vary with greeting cards for different purposes.

The card is provided with one or more slits 2 through which may be inserted strips 3 having printed thereon some message or greeting. Each strip is formed at one end with a tab or finger piece'portion 4 by which the strip may be withdrawn from the Slit 60 when it is desired to read the message there- 'I willprefera'bly print the messages on the back side ofeach strip although this is not essential. I will also preferably so construct'the card that the strips are not visible from the back side thereof but only from the front. This may conveniently be done by making the card in two plies 5 and 6 which are united adhesively' or otherwise at their peripheralportion as shown at 7. The space between the plies within the peripheral edge thus forms a pocket in which the strips 3 are received. When the strips are fully inserted only the tab or thumb piece 4. will be exposed on the front of the card. When the tab is pulled outwardly the strip will be withdrawn from the slit 2 and the message thereon can be read. I

The tab or finger piece 4 may have any 30 desirable shapewhich will be suitable for the particular card with which it is used. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention these finger pieces are in the form of baggage tags and the slits 2 are soplaced with refer- 35 ence to the pieces of baggage illustrated that i when the strips arein place the tabs 4 have the appearance ofv constituting tags for the pieces of baggage.

A purchaserlooking for greeting cards of this type desires, of course, to know the character ofthe greeting on the strips before making the purchase and in order to do this it is necessary to pull the strips out of their slits sufficiently to enable the message thereon to be read. Such would-be purchasers are frequently rather careless in their han-.

dling ofgreeting cards and are liable to pull the stripclear out of the slit in order to read it and then are not always particular to put it back into the slit again so that the message bearing strips frequently become lost or misplaced and cards which are on sale will be found to be minus one or more of such strips. V

Oneof the objects of my present invention is to provide a novel construction by which this undesirable condition will be avoided and I have, therefore, so made the strips that they cannot be readily removed from the slits. I have-also constructed the tab 4; so that it will form a stop to limit the inserting movement of the strip.

The strips 3 preferably have parallel sides and each slit 2 will be just wide enough to freely receive the strip. The lower end of each strip is formed with a lateral extension 8 which acts as a stop to. limit the withdrawing movement of the strip from the slit.

'In order to permit the strip to be removed or inserted if desired I propose to round the lower corner 9 opposite the ex tension 8, this corner being formed on the arc of a circle struck fromthe corner 10 as. a center,

1 Fig. 4 shows how the strip may be inserted into the slit 2. This is done by turning the strip down into an. angular position and "inserting the nose or extension 8 through the slit as seen inFig. 4 and then swinging the strip into its vertical position with the corner 10 fulcruming on one edge ofthe siit 2. In .order to entirely remove the strip from the slit it is necessary to withdraw the strip asfar as permitted by the extension See that the corner 10 will be at the corner of the slit and then swing the strip from a vertical position around into the horizontal position as shown in Fig. 4 after which the extension 8 may be withdrawn from the slit.

The tab or finger piece portion 4 is preterably made wider than the strip 3 thereby to form shoulders 11 which serve as stops to prevent the inserting movement of the str'p.

vided witlrmeans for limiting both its inserting movement and its withdrawing movement and, therefore, the strips will not become accidentally misplaced orlost during their inspection by would-be purchasers.

I claim;

1. A greeting card comprising a card member having a pocket and a slit leading to the pocket and a greeting bearing strip The strip herein shown is,'th'erefore, proslit in a straight line but in the pocket and projecting through the member having a pocket and a slit leading to the pocket and a greeting-bearing strip in the pocket and projecting through the slit,

the exposed and of the strip constituting a tab or finger piece by which the strip may be withdrawn, said strip having at its lower end a lateral extension on one side only, the corner of said strip on the other side heing rounded, said extension limiting the withdrawing movement of the strip when pulled straight outwardly but permitting said strip to be removed by swinging it into an angular position when itis at the outward limit 0 its movement, the tab portion of the strip being wider than the body thereof and forming shoulders which limit the inward movement of the strip.

3. A greeting card comprising a card member having a pocket and a slit leading to the pocket, and a greeting-bearing strip in the pocket and projecting through the slit, theexposed end of the strip constituting a pad or finger piece by which the strip may be withdrawn, and said strip having at its opposite end an extension WhlClI'PTGVGDtS the strip from being withdrawn from the permits the removal of the strip from the slit when it is turned into an angular position.

In testimony whereof, I'have signed my name to this specification.

ERNEST D. oniisn 

